Mystery of the Century-Part 3.

Part-1, 2 & 3 combined to understand the story.

Part-1

September 8, Year 2024, Coast of the Islands.

Benjamin is working as a bureaucrat in the defense ministry. He is a very honest man to the core. He even has two water bottles for drinking water. The water collected in the office will not be brought to home. Honesty to the core! He lost his wife during her delivery of their daughter. Benjamin loves his daughter Ann very much. He takes her wherever he goes. His world is her daughter. He is happy in cooking for her, sending her to school, getting the school uniforms, teaching her and doing the smaller things in life for her. It is a Sunday, his daughter Ann’s birthday. He was preparing balloons and fixing in her room and ordering a birthday cake.

He gets a call from the Defense Minister to visit the office immediately. Unfortunately it is his daughter’s 8^th birthday. Since he is called by the national defense minister, he could not refuse. Benjamin told Ann to take food and said her that he will take her out for the birthday in the evening. Benjamin goes to the ministry of defense. He is offered lunch. Immediately after taking lunch, he collapses and falls on the floor dead!

Message reaches Ann that his father has passed away by a sudden heart attack. She cries a lot. She becomes an Orphan and lost everything in her world. He was the world to her and she did not even expect that she will be left alone in this world, struggling. The balloons fixed on the wall were hanging lifeless, the birthday card Benjamin got for Ann was also lying in his shelf. The world turned upside for Ann.

50 Years later, Year 2074

The world changed a lot. AI-Artificial intelligence changed the world a lot. Everywhere, Robots replaced humans in most of the work. Human dependency on robots increased by many folds. There were no shops and all were delivered by Robots. Hardly there was interaction between humans. Machines started ruling the world. Humans lost their intelligence and gave it to the machines. Depression was at its peak since life has become a machine and mechanical without any emotions!

Every country was defended by Robots. Robots were created and trained to defend the country borders in both the land and sea. Computer engineers programmed for all the Robot soldiers. They wrote programs for the Robots to identify the enemy Robots and kill by laser technology. Those computer engineers who were hired for creating the Military Robots were kept isolated and guarded, so the programs were kept as a top secret. The designers of the military robots were always within the Government’s close watch in the Military zone. They were living, like in a prison. Their families too were guarded, monitored with a GPS tracker inserted into their bodies!

November 17, Year 2074, Zenith City.

Corruption never went down. For the recruitment of new Robots, a deal was fixed and successfully lot of money got transferred. Kole, the defense minister was overjoyed with money and power. A lunch party was organized by Kole, the powerful man. He had invited friends and key businessmen. All were checked thoroughly before the entry to the venue. After drinking lot of wine, Kole was boasting of his power and was saying no-one in the world can even touch him. Within minutes, Kole collapsed and fell dead on the ground. The man who boasted minutes before was lying in the floor dead.

The death news of the top Defense minister sent shock wave across the powerful country in the world. A high level investigation was formed by the government to find out the murderer. An important finding came and that was the post-mortem report for the cause of death as Potassium cyanide in his body. Interrogation of all the high profile visitors of the party, CCTV footage were screened thoroughly but it remained a mystery and the case could not be solved for years. The case became dead even after the investigation went to the PDA [Premier Detective Agency] of the country.

April 26, Year 2076, Canbitha city

Nolan, the high profile Defense minister of the second powerful country in the world Travod was invited to the meeting of military generals. Nolan arrived in a bullet proof plane and was guarded by Robot security guards. This meeting was conducted due to the imminent World war III. After having his lunch, same story continues. Nolan the powerful man fell to the ground dead. The news made the world to sit and notice. Nolan too died of Potassium cyanide in his body.

Every premier investigative agency of the world assembled as a team to find the murderer in the advanced world of technology and still the murderer was roaming free. It became the Mystery of the Century.

The investigation continues…..They could find the lead.

In the meantime, Ann now 60 years old is living alone in her isolated house in a hill in one of the city in the Coast of the Islands.

Part 2

The investigation continues and they could find the pattern in this case.

All the deaths were of the high profile individuals of Ministry of Defense.

All the deaths were caused by Potassium cyanide in the body. All were poisoned.

All were involved in corruption to the highest level.

They belong to different countries but common was the defense field and associated corruption.

So they arrive a common point that it is one person who has killed all these high profile individuals who had utmost security in different countries. The mystery was how come the person was able to breach the high security cordon and poison all those without any evidence?

All the persons who had entry into all those country were screened and there was no common person in those countries in those dates. Still got complicated!

The left over wine in the glass had traces of Potassium cyanide indicating the poisoning. They traced out the passage and movement of Potassium cyanide. It was an era where all were delivered by Robots. They could identify the Robots transferred Potassium Cyanide in all the countries but it was not delivered. It was interesting to find that the Robots did not deliver the Potassium cyanide. The order for Potassium cyanide was a fake address which did not even exist. This made the Joint investigation agency to sit up and proceed further. The outcome was Potassium cyanide was collected by Robots but not delivered in all cases. The case narrowed down to the Robots. Now who is driving these Robots?

The puzzle from all the investigative agencies across the world was how a Robot was able to kill the individuals in different countries? They decided to go by case by case to unravel the mystery. It was Robot No.R1811 in the case of Kole’s the defense minister’s death. The Robot was in role on November 17, Year 2074, Zenith City in the lunch party.

Records found that the Robot 1811 was neutralized after the incident. The computer engineer who designed 1811 was taken into custody to know whether he had programmed the Robot to poison the defense minister. Investigation found that there was no fault of him or any program error. Records show all the other Robots were also found neutralized after the date of killing. The mystery continued and it was puzzling who is activating this Robot and later neutralizing them?

August 1, year 2076, Verkosin

Even after the mysterious deaths, top guns of the defense sector wants to amass wealth through the corrupted way. A deal was done with arms dealer for a huge money. Jeff, the defense secretary returned to his Royal home in Verkosin that evening. Jeff was sipping a glass of wine in his garden. There was a Robot waiting patiently, looking at him from the tree in the darkness. The robot got down and took a packet of white powder and laced his drinks with Potassium Cyanide. He drank the wine laced with Potassium cyanide and minutes later he collapsed in the garden. The Robot too was found malfunctioned. The world was confused!

Coast of the Islands

Ann who is living in the isolated hill house notices a feather at the doorstep of her house every day. She clears the feather but it reappears every day. She is wondering why these feathers appear every day.

PDA headquarters

Investigation agency laid a trap to see the movement of Robots across the world everywhere.

Part 3.

Jeff’s murder at Verkosin further sealed and confirmed the role of Robot used in the killing of all high profile individuals of Ministry of Defense with Potassium cyanide poisoning. The world is filled with Robots. Though all the robots are designed well and the computer designers are guarded and monitored for every movement it is scary to know it is easier to kill through Robots breaching any security.

The only way to identify the murderer behind these Robots would be to track the movement of every Robot. It was decided to include a tracker in every Robot. The entire movement was mapped and was closely monitored by investigative agents.

To their utter surprise, satellite images shows one Robot was always going to the hill house in the Coast of the islands, where Ann was living alone. It raised suspicion and they began to monitor that Robot closely.

Another Robot was going to the buried place of Dr. Immanuel in the same city. Investigative agencies focused on these two places of interest. They decided to get the complete information about the persons living in one home-Ann and another buried Dr. Immanuel.

Narrowing down to the Coast of the islands.

One set of Investigative agencies focused on Ann living in the hill house. They take the history of her family. They find that her father Benjamin had also worked in the defense ministry and died in 2024.They searched the medical record of Benjamin and it was a falsified medical record of heart attack for his death. Since it happened in 2024, they could not get the complete information for the investigation. They suspected that Ann might be using these Robots to kill all corrupted defense personnel since her father was serving and died mysteriously. They could sense that Ann is taking revenge for his father’s death. The investigation agency informed the national satellite Centre to record all the movements and collect all audio inside the house without anyone’s knowledge.

Ann

Ann’s history was tracked. After her father Benjamin’s death, she became an orphan. She was taken into Elizabeth Orphan Centre. During her stay, she had completed her medical degree and served as a Gynecologist. After her retirement, she sold her father’s house and settled in the hill house in the Coast of the islands. Her record was clean like her father.

Investigative agencies were puzzled since she was serving mankind by her noble profession and helped lot of birth in this world. Definitely she is not angry with the society but maybe she wanted to take revenge over the corrupted defense personnel!

Dr. Immanuel

Another set of Investigative agencies focused on Dr. Immanuel. They track the history of Dr. Immanuel. He was a famous neuro scientist. Incidentally both Ann’s father Benjamin and Dr. Immanuel were school mates and studied till their college in computer engineering. Later Dr. Immanuel studied Medicine with Neurology as specialization. It was an interesting coincidence and it was getting narrowed down. But the puzzle still continued since they found that Dr. Immanuel died in a car accident in October 2024 immediately one month after the death of Benjamin. Both were best friends in life from their childhood. Immanuel had many notable discoveries and was awarded for many of his contributions in the field of Neurology. They both died 52 years ago.

Isaac-Son of Dr. Immanuel

They focus on Isaac, the only son of Dr. Immanuel. He is living with his family and doing a travel agency. They take him for interrogation. They find he is not having any knowledge of Computer programming and using computers only for the basic operations. Isaac shared the investigation agency that both his father Dr. Immanuel and Benjamin were close friends and they have many photographs taken together. Investigative agencies ask Isaac for any possession of his father’s work.

Interestingly Isaac says that after many years he could find a hard disk of his father. He tried to open the hard disk and it contained many files and he could not understand those files. So he gave it to a computer expert. The computer expert used Artificial intelligence tool through Internet and asked the type, nature and purpose of these files. After sometime, Artificial intelligence tool gave a response that there is nothing in this hard disk, though both Isaac and the computer expert could see files in the hard disk.

This information chilled the nerves of the Investigative agencies. They asked Isaac “Where is the hard drive now”? Isaac told them that even when the Artificial intelligence tool could not find out, there was no purpose to keep the hard drive, and so I broke and threw away the hard disk.

Ann & Isaac

Investigative agencies find Ann and Isaac are totally innocent. Definitely it seems like a revenge for death of Benjamin. They are able to peel each layer of the mystery but how come the revenge is carried out through Robots after 50 years? Why Robots are visiting the home of Ann and the grave yard of Dr. Immanuel? Questions still unanswered!!!

Still the mystery deepens and continues.

Wait for the Part-4.

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